ROSIDS Rapid Open Source Intelligence

Open source intelligence

Open-source intelligence is a form of intelligence collection management that involves finding, selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources and analyzing it to produce actionable intelligence...

 Deployment System, which timeshifts

Time shifting

Time shifting is the recording of programming to a storage medium to be viewed or listened to at a time more convenient to the consumer. Typically, this refers to TV programming but can also refer to radio shows via podcasts....

 the video then processes speech-to-text through the SAIL LABS Technology automatic speech recognition and then hands the XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

 result to a machine translation

Machine translation

Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...

 engine. The translated text is then resynchronized with the video and the result is translated close caption in real time. The idea originated after a request of a Navy

Navy

A navy is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions...

 to deploy these systems on board ships in order to be aware of what is being said on television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 stations close to the ship

Ship

Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...

´s route or at the port of call

Port of Call

-Synopsis:Berit, a young woman living in a working-class port town begins a relationship with Gösta, a sailor newly returned from overseas and intent upon staying on land...

. It was later used in peace keeping solutions. In 2007 the inventing team from SAIL LABS Technology won the European ICT Prize.

Sources

• speech by Mark Pfeiffer at Speechtek in August 2006.
• http://www.ict-prize.org/
• http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/05/nsas_multibillion_dollar_data.html